If a man means me no offense and I am offended, I am a fool. If a man means me offense and I am offended, I am still a fool.

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"I am weary of chickens. How they look up at us with their small eyes as though we were unimportant." - Pablo Naruda
"Well they do. And we are. It's just hard to take it from a damn chicken!" - Greg Brown